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On 10 March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft which operated the flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu six minutes after takeoff. All 149 passengers and 8 crew members on board died. Flight 302 is Ethiopian Airlines' deadliest accident to date, surpassing the fatal hijacking of Flight 961 resulting in a crash near the Comoros in 1996.
He had also been a Beechcraft 1900 first officer for CommutAir, and a flight instructor for FlightSafety International. [11]: 5 Blakely logged a total of 11,172 flight hours, including 1,252 hours on the Boeing 767. [11]: 3–4 Aska joined Atlas Air on July 3, 2017, and received his type rating on the Boeing 767 two months later.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The flight data recorder was found at 1130 local time (0230 GMT), about two and a half hours after the crash, and the cockpit voice recorder was found at 1424, according to South Korea’s ...
Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in 2019" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On October 17, 2019, the Saab 2000 operating the flight overran the runway after landing at its destination airport. Of the 42 passengers and crew on board, one passenger (identified as David Allan Oltman) was fatally injured when a propeller blade penetrated the fuselage , one was seriously injured and ten suffered minor injuries. [ 1 ]
In December 2019, two years after the crash, the NTSB released the final report on the accident. It had been caused by the following: [24] The flight crew's failure to maintain airspeed while maneuvering to exit an area of rising terrain, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack and an aerodynamic stall.
Preliminary NTSB investigation results from flight data recorder telemetry, released on August 2, 2017, indicate that AC759 reached a minimum altitude of 59 feet (18 m) above ground level, comparable to the 55 ft 10 in (17.02 m) tail height of a Boeing 787-9, two of which were on Taxiway C. [7] [24] The cockpit voice recorder had been ...